Andie MacDowell

You may or may not know that “People Like Us” star Chris Pine auditioned for “Avatar.” It did not go well. “Sometimes you can leave your car in Burbank, Los Angeles, and walk into a conference room and your back is sweating and you’re thinking about the laundry you have to do and somehow seamlessly you can then pretend to be a man in a loincloth standing in front of blue people saying lines like, ‘Come follow me, I’ll save you!,’” he says, laughing. “And sometimes you just can’t buy it. “I walked into that room absolutely not believing myself. How dare I put that poor casting director through the experience of...

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